Call for papers

Call for Papers

Collocated with IJCAI-11
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged.

The 2011 meeting will be held in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, ICWSM 2011 will include a selection of invited talks from prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of talks from leaders of xxxxxxx

Disciplines

Computational Linguistics/NLP
Text Mining/Data Mining
Psychology
Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
Visualization
Political Science
Computational Social Science
HCI
Economics
Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models
Media

Weblogs, including comments
Social Networking Sites
Microblogs
Wikis (wikipedia)
Forums, usenet
Community media sites: youtube, flickr
Topics Include

Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
Submission

People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-11 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages, not including references), poster or demo description (up to 4 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the AAAI author instructions page at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: http://icwsm.org.
Submission to other conferences or journals

ICWSM-11 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience.
Registration

All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person.
Publication

All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.
Data Challenge

ICWSM-11 will once again hold a data challenge featuring a freely-available dataset and a half-day workshop at the conference. Details will be posted on the conference website.
Conference Website

www.icwsm.org
For general information regarding ICWSM-11, please write to icwsm11@aaai.org.
Committee

General Chairs

Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill
James G. Shanahan, Independent Consultant
Program Chairs

Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Scott Counts, Microsoft
Local Chairs

Alex Jaimes, Yahoo! Research
Ricard Ruiz de Querol, Barcelona Media Innovation Center
Data Challenge Chairs

Ian Soboroff, NIST
Publicity Chairs

danah boyd, Microsoft Research & Harvard University
Demonstrations Chairs

coming soon...
Sponsorship Chairs

Ron Kass, Pidgin Technologies
Tutorials Chairs

John Breslin, NUI Galway
Webmaster

Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Interactive
Disco Gerdes, Mutual Mobile
Venue

Barcelona, Spain
Student Awards

We will be providing a limited number of student awards to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and registration to the ICWSM 2011 conference. Details will be posted on the conference website.
Important Dates

For Paper

Abstract Submission: January 31, 2011
Full Paper Submission: February 7, 2011
Notification of Acceptance March 18, 2011
Camera Ready Due: April 4, 2011
Conference: Barcelona July 17-20, 2011
For Workshop

Data Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011
For Tutorial

Tutorial Proposal Submission: February 18, 2011
Tutorial Acceptance: March 4, 2011
For Workshop

Workshop Proposal Submission: January 7, 2011
Workshop Acceptance: January 18, 2011
Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011
Kind regards,
Jimi and Nicolas
ICWSM 2011 Co-chairs